Drawing shows four color illustrations with figures, trees, mountains, and landscapes that conceptualize justice and the history of law in Colorado.

Date

[between 1976 and 1977]

Notes

Accession ID: 93.316; History Colorado.; Curatorial note supplied by History Colorado: Prepatory sketch for Judicial Building mural.; Inscription on drawing: 1. Great men of law: Justinian, Blackstone etc.; 2. The great leaders of mankind on justice; 3. Philosophers of justice: Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Plutarch, Herodotus, Virgil, Rousseau, Bacon, Montesouieu, Pascal, Hegel, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Engels, James, Kant, Mill; 4. History of law in Colorado. The first court could have been on a hillside or saloon, probably in Central City, certainly in the teeming mine camps, later in more substantial or decorous buildings. Research on this kind of approach would have to be intensive.; Object ID: 93.316.80; Scanned image from loaned transparency including Object ID.; Title supplied.; R7200029852